Background: Evidence-based indicators of quality of care have been developed to improve
care and performance in Canadian emergency departments. The feasibility of measuring …

Background As global emergency care grows, practical and effective performance measures
are needed to ensure high quality care. Our objective was to systematically catalog and …

Background: The evaluation of emergency department (ED) quality of care is hampered by
the absence of consensus on appropriate measures. We sought to develop a consensus on …

In an attempt to respond to this metric, EDs began to administer antibiotics for almost any
patient with respiratory symptoms, resulting in antibiotic overuse and subsequent resistance …

Although many health care quality indicators have been defined for establishing a common,
homogeneous, and reliable system for assessing emergency department care, less …

Indicators measuring aspects of performance to assess quality of care are often chosen
arbitrarily. The present study aimed to determine what should be considered when selecting …

Background Quality measurement as part of quality improvement in healthcare is integral for
service delivery and development. This is particularly pertinent for health services that …

Objectives Systems theory suggests that there should be relatively high correlations among
quality measures within an organization. This was an examination of hospital performance …

Context: Quality measures focused on outpatient settings are of increasing interest to policy
makers, but little research has been conducted on hospital outpatient quality measures …

Background. Quality of care in the Emergency Department (ED) is of particular concern
because the ED is a frequent portal of entry into the medical system, has high potential for …